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most citedWALOP-South: A Four Camera One Shot Imaging Polarimeter for PASIPHAE Survey. Paper I -- Optical Design

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astro-ph.IM2026

WALOP-South: a four camera one shot imaging polarimeter for the PASIPHAE survey. Paper III -- PSF modelling

Indrajit Paul, Kishan Deka, Tuhin Ghosh +22

The two WALOP instruments, built for the PASIPHAE survey, will measure the linear polarization of large numbers of stars in the Galactic polar regions in the SDSS- band. They ar…

astro-ph.IM2025

Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter Control Software

John A. Kypriotakis, Bhushan Joshi, Dmitry Blinov +19

The WALOPControl software is designed to facilitate comprehensive control and operation of the WALOP (Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter) polarimeters, ensuring safe and concurre…

astro-ph.HE2025

IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View

L. Lisalda, E. Gau, H. Krawczynski +157

The blazar Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) was observed on three occasions over a 4-month period between 2022 March and 2022 July with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). In thi…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

The WALOP-North Instrument I: Optical Design, Filter Design, Calibration

John A. Kypriotakis, Siddharth Maharana, Ramya M. Anche +18

The Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter North (WALOP-North) is an optical polarimeter designed for the needs of the PASIPHAE survey. It will be installed on the 1.3m telescope at…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

3D ISM structure challenges the Serkowski relation

Nikolaos Mandarakas, Konstantinos Tassis, Raphael Skalidis

The Serkowski relation is the cornerstone of studies of starlight polarization as a function of wavelength. Although empirical, its extensive use since its inception to describe po…

astro-ph.IM2024

Systems design, assembly, integration and lab testing of WALOP-South Polarimeter

Siddharth Maharana, A. N. Ramaprakash, Chaitanya Rajarshi +28

Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South is the first wide-field and survey-capacity polarimeter in the optical wavelengths. On schedule for commissioning in 2024, it wil…

astro-ph.SR2023

Zero-polarization candidate regions for calibration of wide-field optical polarimeters

N. Mandarakas, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pelgrims +14

Context. Calibration of optical polarimeters relies on the use of stars with negligible polarization (unpolarized standard stars) for determining the instrumental polarization zero…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

Bright-Moon Sky as a Wide-Field Linear Polarimetric Flat Source for Calibration

S. Maharana, S. Kiehlmann, D. Blinov +20

Next-generation wide-field optical polarimeters like the Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeters (WALOPs) have a field of view (FoV) of tens of arcminutes. For efficient and accurate…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

WALOP-South: A Four-Camera One-Shot Imaging Polarimeter for PASIPHAE Survey. Paper II -- Polarimetric Modelling and Calibration

Siddharth Maharana, Ramya M. Anche, A. N. Ramaprakash +22

The Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South instrument is an upcoming wide-field and high-accuracy optical polarimeter to be used as a survey instrument for carrying out…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

WALOP-South: A wide-field one-shot linear optical polarimeter for PASIPHAE survey

Siddharth Maharana, John A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash +20

WALOP (Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter)-South, to be mounted on the 1m SAAO telescope in South Africa, is first of the two WALOP instruments currently under development for ca…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 9 cited

WALOP-South: A Four Camera One Shot Imaging Polarimeter for PASIPHAE Survey. Paper I -- Optical Design

Siddharth Maharana, John A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash +17

The WALOP-South instrument will be mounted on the 1 m SAAO telescope in South Africa as part of the PASIPHAE program to carry out a linear imaging polarization survey of the Galact…